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Context from when this showed up last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17239259

The CEO, _jayy, posted a number of comments, then deleted all but one. The deleted comments were preserved by yegortimoshenko. Links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241694

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There's even more context about how this CEO managed the business in a reddit thread in response to those tweets as well, which includes some detailed and revealing comments from the developer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_fu...

That's the most detailed explanation of things I can find in this thread. Thanks.

"the manager", personified. Sheesh.

"Code doesn't sell itself" is almost managerial/ceo self-parody -- especially when it's a two-person show (not to mention the score of successful open/open-ish projects that totally and utterly lack a marketer/salesman.)

I think he meant "Code doesn't skim its' own profit."

There are plenty of skilled and honest managers in tech, so I fail to see how this is "the manager" personified.

The engineer recognizes that with a competent manager things would be in a better place - nowhere does he say that the manager as a figure is redundant, quite the opposite in fact.

If anything this is "founder failure" personified, which is why VCs are absolutely obsessed with founder chemistry.

He or she is saying that he's a personification of the well-known and sometimes-accurate manager cliché that engineers love to hate. Think pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. It's become an abstraction that people use for conversing, including for laughing, so it doesn't go away when you say "I know many contemporary counterexamples".

CEO also blocks everyone who supports Daniel on their IRC channel. I've been repeatedly asked to take down these links and documents, and CEO even told me "they would come after me" if not for the fact that I live in Russia. See IRC logs: https://view.matrix.org/room/!VxEwjfmZAypdXzZfUp:matrix.org/

Mirror: https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/copperhead-takeover

CEO has sent DMCA takedown request on my GitLab repo, which clearly abuses copyright law. To use the mirrored pages, replace "yegortimoshenko.gitlab.io" in URLs with "yegortimoshenko.github.io".

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